Am Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:45:14 -0400 hat Stavros Macrakis
<stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> geschrieben:
>> I have this work sheet (I teach at a high school):
>
> Great to see Maxima being used in a high school!
Thank you very much for your response.
I started using Maxima but now I am loosing my courage a bit as there seem
to be serious obstacles.
I mean the following points:
1) No modern GUI.
2) Problem with carrying out calculations in floating point.
3)* Problem with plot2d: I do not know how I can scale graphics output,
I do not know, how I can draw curves with x-scale and y-scale being
equal (that is, in "isometric mode", what you get in Maple pressing
the "1:1" button or in MuPad specifying "Scaling=Constraint").
4)* I do not know how to prettyprint a session with the graphics being
embedded into the output (using the fonts size I prefer).
5) I do not know how to draw points for example and how to plot several
plots at once (you can do this in Maple and in MuPad). I do not know
how to plot points, for example.
I could do without 1), 2) and 5) but I cannot do without 3)* and 4)*. So
at this state of play, Maxima can be used at high school, but Maple or
MuPad are definitely preferable if you have the money (which we hav e not).
--
JB